Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps the Deputy should investigate the issues arising and whether they could have been resolved. I do not know what drove the opposition but it would be interesting to find out. The Deputy made a comment about local authorities selling houses to council tenants. Since 1973 there is a long-standing policy, which I understood was supported by most parties in this House, that people who held long-term tenancies in local authority houses could be in a position to apply to purchase their homes at a certain point. I heard the Deputy condemn the right of people who live in local authority estates.

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